{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Narwhal (narwhal)'s status on Friday, 30-Oct-15 11:46:43 UTC","author_name":"Narwhal (narwhal)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/narwhal","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/4017410","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/76\" class=\"url\" title=\"Gorekin\"><span class=\"fn nickname mention\">thelastgherkin<\/span><\/a><\/span> I mean, yeah, lots of the game's fans are readily excited about the game, but can you honestly blame them? It's a new piece of media that has resonated emotionally with a lot of people in the internet age, so of course they're going to want to talk about it through their platform of preference. This isn't some new paradigm, it's just the way people respond to popular media, and it's not like people won't respond similarly to the Next Big Thing. Liking it isn't obligatory, but that's no reason to be bitter about it either."}